Chapter 43: Trouble

Hearing that Li Zhen was going to push himself to the end, Sun An suddenly became anxious: "No, Your Highness, can you be a little late?" The subordinates have just formulated a quality standard for the Hangzhou ship, and they haven't had time to verify it, can you let me see the results first? ”

"No, this king won't give in anymore." Li Zhen shook her head firmly and said: "The matter of quality standards can be talked about after a while, anyway, the scale of Hangzhou Ship is so large now, and the number of workers is not more than 100, even if there is a problem, it can be corrected, what are you afraid of?" But your illness can't be delayed, your body is already weak to the limit, and it may collapse at any time, you must first recuperate your body. ”

"But ......"

"Nothing." Li Zhen said very domineeringly: "Let's just do this, don't be in Hangzhou, this king will give you a few months off, you can just follow us to Chang'an - only by taking you with him, this king can rest assured." That's it, you go back and pack your things. ”

"Your Highness." Sun An has never seen Li Zhen's domineering side, but in the face of Li Zhen's strength, he has no choice but to smile bitterly: "Your Highness, you can spare me, if you really let your subordinates be idle, your subordinates may die early." ”

"How so?" Li Zhen didn't listen to it at all, shook her head and said: "Let what you say, this king won't listen to it, don't say it, just say it...... Simply, don't go back, this king will send someone to your house to help you with something, you can wait here. Little Fuzi ......"

Xiao Fuzi immediately stepped forward: "Your Highness, the slave is here." ”

"Go ahead."

"Yes."

"Hey~" Sun An was anxious when he saw Xiao Fuzi leaving in a hurry with someone, but how could Xiao Fuzi listen to him? In the blink of an eye, there was no one.

"Your Highness." Sun An looked at Li Zhen resentfully.

"It's okay, it's okay, that's it." Li Zhencai ignored him, and hurriedly changed the topic when he saw this: "By the way, are you ready for the boat I asked you to prepare?" ”

"It's ready." Seeing that he was talking about business, Sun An's professionalism in his bones suddenly made him recover from his previous state: "There are a total of three hundred cargo ships, fifty passenger ships, and one hundred carriage and horse ships. ”

"Why is there only that?" Li Zhen frowned, the carrying capacity of the river boat is far inferior to that of the sea boat, how can three hundred ships be enough if she has brought so many things? There are also passenger ships, the largest passenger ships on the canal, which can hold 50 people at a time, and 50 can only hold 2,500 people, and they can bring 10,000 people.

"There's no way, the subordinates have already ordered the people below to collect as much as possible, but ......" Sun An stopped talking.

"But what?" Li Zhen knew that something was wrong, and her heart sank: "Is someone sabotage?" ”

"Exactly." Sun An nodded and said: "When the subordinates first started collecting ships, everything went smoothly, and they could collect dozens of ships every day, if they follow this progress, before His Highness arrives in Hangzhou, it is completely fine to collect a sufficient number of ships."

But the problem came three days later, after the subordinates collected the boats for three days, they found that the ships were not so easy to collect.

After a detailed investigation by his subordinates, it was found that when his subordinates began to collect ships, several forces suddenly appeared in Hangzhou, and they also collected ships under the same conditions, and the means were very violent, but all the ships that were unwilling to be recruited by them would not only be severely beaten, but even the ships would be forcibly taken away - according to the investigation of the subordinates, it was found that in the past half a month, the Hangzhou Assassin Yamen had accepted hundreds of such cases, but no matter how the Hangzhou Assassin Shi investigated, no clues were found. ”

"It seems that someone is fighting against this king." Li Zhen doesn't have to think about it, the mastermind behind the scenes must be this Hangzhou assassin - Cui Yongxing is playing ghosts. It's not that Li Zhen's judgment is too arbitrary, it's really that the whole of Hangzhou except for him, Li Zhen really can't think of anyone other than this person who can steal business with Sun An silently.

"My subordinates are not doing well, and I ask Your Highness to forgive me."

"It's okay, it's a mistake on the part of this king." Li Zhen waved his hand indifferently: "Fortunately, the king has been prepared, otherwise he would really have fallen into their way." ”

Hangzhou has always been the family's own place, Hangzhou officialdom has long been run by the family to a thorough, although the family is now out of power, but their soft power has not been much damaged - in the Tang Dynasty and the opposition, in the officialdom of various places, the family still occupies more than fifty percent of the positions in the Tang Dynasty officialdom.

"Prepared?" Sun An was puzzled: "Your Highness, what does this mean?" ”

"It's nothing, when you left Yuezhou, this king was worried that you wouldn't be able to collect enough ships, so he had already ordered in advance to order the Dengzhou fleet to help collect ships. Calculating the time, if the king's order is successfully conveyed, Dengzhou should have already set off. Li Zhen is really not comforting Sun An, he did give such an order, just worried that something would go wrong on Sun An's side - Li Zhen didn't dare to forget that when she came to Hangzhou before, Wu Meiniang shot the balls of a second-generation official, and the father of the second-generation official is a relative of Cui Yongxing......

Therefore, the feud between the two sides has already been concluded, and Cui Yongxing does not block himself, so it is even stranger.

Li Zhen guessed wrong this time, it wasn't Cui Yongxing who caused him trouble this time - Cui Yongxing himself was a disciple of the Cui family, and he sat in the position of a state assassin, so such a person is naturally not stupid.

How could he not see that the current family had reached the point of storms?

What the family needs now is time to lick their wounds, they wish the court wouldn't pay attention to them, how could Cui Yongxing take the initiative to provoke Li Zhen at such a time?

What is that not looking for death?

Although the Battle for Silver Island only destroyed half of the Maison's power, the destroyed half of the power was the Maison's armed forces, and the remaining half of the power was only soft power.

But how useful is soft power in a world where fists speak?

The court is reasonable with you, and soft power can naturally play a role, but if the court is ready to come hard, even if you are reasonable, what can you do?

There is a saying that is very right, there is never a shortage of people who want to be officials in this world, if the imperial court really rectifies the family and erases the influence of the officialdom of the family by strong means, the Tang Dynasty officialdom will certainly usher in a period of turmoil, but it is only a period of turmoil, as long as the successor has a little courage, it will not be a problem to stabilize the situation at all.

But the family is about to be unlucky, without the armed forces, and without the right to speak in the officialdom, who cares what you are?

(End of chapter)